Aquaman and the Others #1 review

The Others are a loose association of heroes who share one thing – possession of Atlantean artefacts of power. They’ve previously appeared in the Aquaman series and their own special, and now they get an ongoing, headlined by the Sea King himself. The book opens with a flashback to the days of Atlan, ousted king […]

Superman #28 review

Ten out of ten for a striking cover design as Ed Benes follows Aaron Kuder’s lead on this month’s Action Comics to give us an especially earthy treatment. But can you judge the book by this cover? Could the interior actually live up to the exterior, especially after the horror served up by writer Scott […]

Supergirl #28 review

Supergirl and Lobo are fighting at underground science station the Block. Kara is angrier than ever before, bitter that Earth seems to have nothing to offer but pain. The fight goes worldwide when Block boss Shay Veritas expels the pair to stop the facility and its inhabitants from becoming collateral damage (though lurking demon Blaze […]

Superman #27 review

The Parasite is draining the psychic energy from Brainiac-boosted Lois Lane. Superman is battling to save her life, while Lois’s boyfriend, Jonathan Carroll, also dives into the fray. Along the way, Superman has a eureka moment, wondering if while defeating the Parasite, he came make a personal problem go away … … and if you’ve […]

Supergirl #27 review

Space mercenary Lobo is dead, killed by an out-of-control Supergirl. His corpse – which hasn’t shown the Czarnian tendency to heal instantly – is being opened up on the dissection table at Dr Shay Veritas’s Block research facility. Veritas is watching her lookalike assistants from behind an observation glass, along with Kara, who’s appalled at […]

Superman #26 review

It’s rather appropriate that an issue featuring the Parasite should prove especially absorbing. Not for the fight with the power-sucking plunderer, which is eye-popping fun, but for the characterisation. Let’s take a look … The issue opens with Clark Kent cooking for Wonder Woman. As he’s been offering her rhubarb soup – does such a […]

Superman #23 review

Metropolis stands revealed as the haunt of powerful psychics, known as The Twenty, once-ordinary people seeded with mind-mangling power by the alien conqueror Brainiac. One of them, the HIVE Queen, has Superman in her power. She’s drowning him in sticky mental energy stolen from the citizens, a kind of psychic honey. Her taunts spur Superman […]

Supergirl #22 review

Last issue, Supergirl fled into deep space, having accepted the idea that Kryptonite poisoning was going to kill her. Enticed to the world of I’noxia, she found a place that could be reshaped by her memories. Then she met a horrific figure, someone who looked like her cousin, but with limbs replaced by sinister technology. […]

Superman #21 review

In Metropolis, Hector Hammond, the most powerful psionic in the world, is at the centre of a tug of war. Helpess in an induced coma, S.T.A.R. Labs have him. The H.I.V.E. Queen wants him. A lab researcher who’s been taken over by H.I.V.E. begins infecting others and soon they’re making away with Hammond. Over in […]

Supergirl #21 review

The image that opens this issue’s story, Be Careful What You Wish For, is an arresting one – Supergirl on a space motorcycle. She’s borrowed it – well, nicked it, actually – from super-scientist Dr Veritas to answer a deep space distress call. It isn’t said, but presumably it allows her to save her yellow […]